The Rapture Trilogy is the fictional story of Nathaniel, Cynthia and Jonathan, who learn of the harsh realities of life under David and the New World Order. Gritty, hard-edged and sometimes brutal, these stories will inspire you to re-evaluate your own relationships with Christ.
Psychosis Y Dementia - A Love Story is a horror novel collaboration between Hector Valle and CJ Cassidy. The story is set in South-America, circa 1950, about a woman who is brutally murdered by a street gang. Enter Psychosis, a 400 year old demon of retribution, who has been unknowingly summoned from the grave, not only to avenge her murder, but also to protect her daughter Didi from this vicious gang of cut-throats. The body count rises as the gang continues their murderous crime wave in an attempt to kill every woman in town, unaware that Psychosis has other plans for them. This supernatural story of murder and suspense comes to a head and concludes with an unexpected ending! This story puts a whole new twist into the horror genre.
In the mid-1500's, in The New World, Pirates and Conquistadores invoked the wrath of a demon of retribution known only as Psychosis. This story tells of his birth and the bloody vengeance that he metes out to avenge the slaughter of a peaceful tribe of Mayan Indians.The story is of a dark and gothic nature. This novel depicts graphic violence against women and other adult themes in the horror genre. If horror and violence insults, shocks or appalls your nature or your sensibilities... do us all a favor, put the novel down and just walk away...Tell your friends not to read it either...There is nothing in this novel that you won't find in any horror/slasher/psychotic mass murderer film, but don't blame us after you read it... if you have nightmares... It's just a story, nothing more... keep telling yourself that...It's just a story, nothing more...It's just a story...Nothing more...
Antique collector, Archibald Williams the Third had what he tought was a simple request. He would pay a quarter of a million dollars for a rare artifact, a Mayan mask made of pure gold. Simple enough, the only problem is te mask belongs to the Demon Psychosis and he doesn't wish to part with it!
The following is of a dark and gothic nature. This novel depicts graphic violence against women and other adult themes in the horror genre.If horror and violence insults, shocks or appalls your nature or your sensibilities... do us all a favor, put the novel down and just walk away...Tell your friends not to read it either...There is nothing in this novel that you won't find in any horror/slasher/psychotic mass murderer film, but don't blame us after you read it... if you have nightmares... It's just a story, nothing more... keep telling yourself that...It's just a story, nothing more...It's just a story...Nothing more...
This 'stand alone novel' recounts what happened to Dementia when she vanished in the first Psychosis Y Dementia novel. (What? You didn't read Parts I & II No matter)Here we discover that Dementia has been summoned to rescue a princess from an evil warlord in feudal Japan circa 1525. But nothing is as it seems as she travels to fulfill her mission so she can return to her beloved Psychosis in America in the 1960s. Will true love be victorious? Or will she be trapped in the past forever?
This book is a memoir. Throughout this storytelling narrative, the reader will be taken on a journey that is full of adventures and rich in serendipity. The author takes the reader on a journey through his academic experience in five US states and six universities. The book has three sections. Part 1 begins with the immigrant experience of the author's family. Part 1 covers the author's early years, growing-up in Mexico City, including his college experience, and later his International Nutrition studies at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. In Part 1, the author shares his entry into his academic career where he discovers his passion for public health. He writes about his road to public health to seek a philosophy of scholarship bridging science with human justice. Part 2 focuses on the author's work with community health workers. In Part 2, the author sets the stage and explains ways to transform communities and to bring health justice. Finally, in Part 3, the author presents a new vision with a new actor: the community spiritual worker. The book is a vibrant and colorful tapestry, full of inspirational real-life stories, cultural foods, poems, songs, and many accounts of the author's rich life experience, living in two cultures, Mexico and the US, and working in various universities. The author sheds light on the people who have been in the shadows and who have been invisible within communities. The book emphasizes that working with communities is an art.
This is a story about Moisés Fernandez, a humble man who was obligated since childhood to confront his destiny in order to survive. Although his life was always subjected to adversity, it never defeated him. Even when he saw no light, his warrior spirit would challenge and defeat adversity. His misfortunes hurt the people whom Moises loved most, and this was more painful than if he had been harmed directly. His battle against destiny led him to experience a series of incredible events, which were accompanied by short times of happiness and long periods of bitterness and sadness. Achieving his goals wasn't easy, but Moisés's courage and persistence enabled him to accomplish what seemed impossible. However, shortly after each triumph, his life would fall back into misfortune; even so, he continued in his battle. In the middle of his struggle he would meet Mayra, his first love and a woman who loved him deeply. However, her parents, who sought an economic future for her, separated the couple against their will. Although destiny placed several obstacles in the couple's path, they maintained hoped to reunite one day. But nine years later, Moisés and Mayra would lose hope of meeting again. Their love would be suspended by time, waiting to be revived. In his adulthood, Moisés concluded from the wisdom of his experiences, that he could change his own destiny and those of others by helping them. One of these individuals would be Hansel, who would eventually become a successful man. In the end, Moisés discovers a way to defeat his destiny, and misfortune no longer possesses the power to shape his life. This novel about love and personal growth is set in Colombia during the recent decades of ongoing political violence. "A true odyssey" is based on real life events, with a small dose of fiction.
The Breve Historia offers a Latin American point of view . . . and a more explicitly political focus on the twentieth century. . . . It is stimulating reading and usefully controversial in some places. For now, it is probably the best single short history available."—Brian Loveman, San Diego State University "He demonstrates a fine talent for isolating and depicting major themes in the history of an area otherwise portrayed with great confusion. . . . I think he offers a masterful synthesis."—E. Bradford Burns, University of California, Los Angeles
Hector Fernandez Cuba junio 1965 es un joven estudioso de las culturas antiguas y fruto de abundantes compilaciones historicas es su novela, " El Guerrero Uteh en el Reino de Ramses II" este libro narra las aventuras del joven Uteh descendiente de una estirpe guerrera que arde en deseos de entrar en combate bajo las ordenes del Faraon Ramses II contra su mas potente enemigo el imperio Hitita {actual Armenia) y que culmina con lo que hoy se conoce como el primer tratado de paz entre ambos imperios, escrita en lenguaje coloquial y directo sin rebuscamientos barrocos el texto de fernandez incerta inmediatamente al lector en un mundo fascinante y exotico, literatura que tiene un largo expediente contemporaneo recordemos Mika Waltari con "Sinuhue el Egipcio" esta novela se agrega con su precensia singular al monto de total de la literatura cubana escrita en las ultimas dos decadas .
Cultura y Corazón is a research approach and practice that is rooted in the work of Latinx and Chicanx scholars and intellectuals. The book documents best practices for Community Based and Participatory Action Research (CBPAR), which is both culturally attuned and scientifically demonstrated. This methodology takes a decolonial approach to engaging community members in the research process and integrates critical feminist and indigenous epistemologies. Cultura y Corazón presents case studies from the authors’ work within the fields of education and health. It offers key strategies to working in partnership with marginalized Latinx communities that are grounded in deep respect for the communities’ cultures and lived experiences. This book is intended for students, researchers, and practitioners who want to work with vulnerable populations through a community-based approach that truly respects and integrates culture, values, and funds of knowledge.
Advancing work to effectively study, understand, and serve the fastest growing U.S. ethnic minority population, this volume explicitly emphasizes the racial and ethnic diversity within this heterogeneous cultural group. The focus is on the complex historical roots of contemporary Latino/as, their diversity in skin-color and physiognomy, racial identity, ethnic identity, gender differences, immigration patterns, and acculturation. The work highlights how the complexities inherent in the diverse Latino/a experience, as specified throughout the topics covered in this volume, become critical elements of culturally responsive and racially conscious mental health treatment approaches. By addressing the complexities, within-group differences, and racially heterogeneity characteristic of U.S. Latino/as, this volume makes a significant contribution to the literature related to mental health treatments and interventions.
This book deals with the perennial tensions between ethnic groups and the modern nation-state and does so from the perspective of a leading Mexican anthropologist with deep and long experience in these matters. As such, it is both a superb introduction to the basic issues and a presentation of the author's own original contributions. The appearance of this book in English gives North American readers access to these important and political currents in Latin American anthropology and political economy. It is required reading for anyone wishing to understand the current recrudescence of indigenous peoples at this moment in history?when conventional wisdom had predicted its demise.
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